Re: One Laptop Per Child.

On 6/5/06, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
>
> Maybe this is something Erik would be interested in ? Let me know asap
>
> Marc
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 10:34 -0700, Chris DiBona wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > While this doesn't quite impact this group, I wanted to entertain the
> > idea of finding a few of you to get a board level prototype of the one
> > laptop per child machine to see if your applications can run well on
> > it. I don't have a lot of these, and the actual laptop likely won't
> > ship for some time, but I want to make sure that you folks have the
> > opportunity to think about and perhaps experiemnt on them.
> >
> > Next year, I actually want to give one to each student during the soc
> > and 2 per org as soon as they are ready to ship or something, but they
> > won't be ready in time to do that this year.
> >
> > Anyhow, email soc2006support if you are interested, but remember that
> > we have very few of these kits available to us, so you should be
> > -really- really- really- interested, as if you think it will just rot
> > in your parts box, that is a kit that may be of better use to another
> > person on this list.

This is a very interesting offer. I would volunteer to make sure
AbiWord runs on it (preferrably with a tweaked user interface from
Erik).

Best,
Rob
Received on Mon Jun 5 20:28:15 2006